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Fantastic build, congrats

Very nice build

Thanks all for the feedback and appologies for the link problem. Time to ditch Village Photos for something more reliable. cheers

Cheers folks, Attached are some pics of the completed Eduard Mig-21R. A great kit, my first Eduard and very impressed. Out of the box and painted with Gunze or Tamiya paints. Enjoy.

The sign of a fine model is when it impresses me despite it being a subject that doesnt interest me. This is an exceptional build. Thankyou for turning me around, I have never built a helicopter but now cannot wait until I get my hands on this kit. Thanks to you HartDeco, congrats.

Thanks all for the kind comments. To add further, I actually masked and painted the roundels on the upper wing but used decals for the lower wing and sides. I did not add the duck logo as I figured at some point the plane would have flown prior to its application? I was not happy with the gloss coat prior to decals so added as few as possible. I wish I had seen some of the reference photos supplied on this thread before I started the build, I didnt realise so many shots existed. My google skills need some work!!! Cheers all

Greetings all, Presenting a Tamiya F4U Corsair in 1/48. A fantastic kit. Decals by Ventura and wheels by Barracuda. I am happy with the result although I realised when I was wrapping up the project that maybe RNZAF Corsairs did not have folding wings? Cheers

Hi Mathy, excellent build, very impressive. I am wondering what you use to simulate paint chips? I have been using a fine brush and radomly chipping with tamiya silver but its too....silver and bright. I notice your bare metal is much duller and more realistic. cheers and thanks

Very nice result, impressive. For info, I have built 5 Kitty Hawk kits and the Etendard is the best of the bunch and goes together really well. The worst......the Jaguar!!!! Its an awful kit. Again, great job, love your work.

Fantastic build, amazing.

great looking build and awesome markings.

Yes, thats correct. Morgan's HUD failed so he couldnt fire at the A-4 and Sanchez had damage to his guns from ground fire so couldnt fire back.

Greetings, I have completed the Hasegawa A-4P from Hasegawa in 1/48 scale. Its a difficult to find and very expensive kit and is one of the few that include the short nose of the original US Navy A-4B. It is in the markings of the aircraft flown by Hector Sanchez on June 8, 1982 when he encountered a Sea Harrier flown by David Morgan. Both aircraft escaped the encounter and the pilots lived to fight another day. In fact Sanchez and Morgan met 10 years after the war and became good friends and are to this day. There are several photos of this particular plane online however the camouflage colors vary greatly and its difficult to finalize the actual shading. I have included a photo of the Kinetic Sea Harrier flown by Morgan during the encounter. With thanks to David Morgan for his generous assistance Enjoy

Just completed the Hasegawa A-4P as flown by Hector Sanchez during an encounter with the Sea Harrier sitting behind flown by David Morgan.